You remember Captain Pickard's famous line. Someone would come up with a problem, and then a solution, Pickard would say, "Make it so" and they did. That works really well on Star Trek.
He must have been working with a different class of people than I do sometimes.
In my world, saying make it so is followed by:
- What do you want me to do first boss
- How am I supposed to do this
- I don't have enough (Fill in your own blank beginning with time, money, a tractor, help, dirt, whatever will keep them from working)
- I supposed to go on break now
- It's lunch time
- Who's going to help me
- I have to take a phone call (they are all broke but all have a cell phone)
- You're killing me boss
And if I walk away for 10 minutes I find them all keeping the topside of some chair or other sitting utensil warm with their rear ends. On the one fellow on the crew who is a Mexican who assures me after a hard days work, "Gene, I really like to work, I do". He's a good man, but sometimes he figures out ways to diddle away time that torments me. I know I push hard, that's my nature. But....... The paychecks all clear the bank I think.
It's always been such, but I do envy the Captain. I would love to say "Make it so" and they would.
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